Надо подумать... Благодарю за советы
Кстати, сам Иерусалимски, в ответ на претензии одного из читателей его книги в последней редакции, ответил следующее: «The book is not addressed to newbie programmers, and its description clearly says that: "Programming in Lua is targeted at people with some programming background". It also says that "[it] does not assume any prior knowledge about Lua", and I stand by it, as long as the reader has some programming experience.»
Это есть на Amazon.

Я не просто «newbie» а «damn newbie man-who-seek-the-way-to-become-a-programmer» )))